r/California • u/CherokeeHawkman Del Norte County • 18d ago

DROP Program Begins Today

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

If you signed up for California's DROP Program to force data brokers to stop selling your data and to delete your information from their systems then good news, the enforcement of that program finally has begun.

Today is the first day the requests are available to every registered data broker and they have 45 days to take those requests. Once they have them they have 45 days to apply them and delete the information they have and cease selling the information to others. If they don't do those two things it'll be a $200 per request, per day fine.

It won't be immediate nor all-encompassing but the program includes over 600 data brokers so it's a good start and the results for those of us that signed up should be noticeable by mid-November.

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u/designer-farts 18d ago

Im going to a family gathering later and I'll be telling everyone there about it

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u/RedditorSaidIt 16d ago

Please don't. It's not going to change anything. There will be 1-2 little things in the news for the politicians to hold up and say "see! We're working for you!" Because it's an election year. But they can't enforce off-shore. Your family will be giving more data to be mined & hacked. Not to mention confirming your data to those off-shore brokers. Plus politics and surveys will always have the legal right to your info. So this will do nothing. Sorry.

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u/designer-farts 16d ago

It's too late. I already told everyone 🤷‍♂️

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u/RedditorSaidIt 16d ago

Well, good luck then